'I’m 93 in July, it is almost time to retire': Model maker prepares to wave goodbye to his incredible collection

"I'm 93 in July, it's Almost Time To Retire Isn't It" - From Trains To Pedal Bins, Vin Wardman Calls Time on His Creations.

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00:00Well my name is Wyn Warden and I worked on the railway for 20 years on the track

00:05so pretty much got it in the story of the past like but I just started making

00:12different things as a hobby really but I think if I'd have tried to make it 20

00:18years ago I wouldn't have done it but I all of a sudden I couldn't make anything

00:23I see Concorde and I think well I can make that and looked at the Royal Train

00:29where I can make that and the biggest challenge when I saw Chitty Chitty Bang

00:33Bang that that was more complicated than any women I always tell everybody

00:39they're pedal bins and plywood now that every one of them that's a pedal bin

00:46that's a pedal bin every one of them look as far as you go where there's a

00:51round barrel that's a pedal bin I started making trains and I needed a

00:55boiler didn't I? Well there's that you go up to the tip and everybody is

01:00throwing a pedal bin away so you go and look for the biggest and best and start

01:05decorating it. There's a man down London way somewhere that makes he converts

01:12shoprider scooters into like lorries like that but whereas these cost about

01:212,000 quid I could build one for less than 200. The bigger ones here I made all

01:28little models like you saw in the cabinet I've probably been making these

01:32for the last 10 years yeah I made I made one lot and a bloke come along I wanted

01:42to buy them all and he took them all and then I was like a kid without toys so I'd

01:47start again didn't I? I decided this is the last now yeah

01:55no I I don't think I'm gonna make any more I'm 93 in July it's almost time to

02:02retire now